@edmundopticsEdmund Optics

Light can do some super cool things. Nerd out with us! #thefuturedependsonoptics

card updated Sep 9, 2026 · 13 clips parsed · following 20 · 2,400,000 likes total

Engagement5.47%normal range

Account summary

@edmundoptics has 158,000 followers and 861 videos. Across the 13 parsed clips the average is 453,517 views and 24,130 likes. Engagement to views is 5.47%, which is normal range for TikTok. On the newer half of the feed the response is falling (−1.23 pp). Posts roughly 0.1 times a week. An average clip reaches 287% of the follower count.

Followers

158K

+300 in period

Engagement

5.47%

−1.23 pp newer half

Average views

453.5K

median 15.3K

Likes per clip

24.1K

296 comments avg

Shares / saves

391 / 1.7K

0.37% of viewers save

Posting rate

0.1 / wk

reach 287% of followers

Latest clips

13 collected

There's an amazing museum of optics at the University of Arizona! Watc — @edmundoptics

15.3K0:44There's an amazing museum of optics at the University of Arizona! Watch for a glimpse of some of the incredible optics 7777646104

Lenses focus light very different when surrounded by air vs. when they — @edmundoptics

12.9K0:22Lenses focus light very different when surrounded by air vs. when they're underwater. That's why your vision is blurry i5011234483

Laser beam expanders make laser beams larger to minimize their diverge — @edmundoptics

13.2K1:09Laser beam expanders make laser beams larger to minimize their divergence (how they spread out over time) and let them b50810061121

Movies lied to you about holograms, but real holograms are even more f — @edmundoptics

11.3K0:54Movies lied to you about holograms, but real holograms are even more fascinating! Watch to learn the truth about what ho389431953 $Diffraction gratings split up lasers into multiple beams and separate — @edmundoptics$ 16K0:39Diffraction gratings split up lasers into multiple beams and separate light sources into all of the wavelengths that mak335383743

How do telescopes work? The most powerful telescopes tend to be reflec — @edmundoptics

12.9K1:01How do telescopes work? The most powerful telescopes tend to be reflecting telescopes, using mirrors instead of transpar292672048

Why do these lenses affect lasers so much differently than a white fla — @edmundoptics

9.1K1:18Why do these lenses affect lasers so much differently than a white flashlight? Let's break down the key differences betw274492053

Fresnel rhomb prisms manipulate the polarization of light, or the orie — @edmundoptics

94.2K0:54Fresnel rhomb prisms manipulate the polarization of light, or the orientation of the light waves moving through space Wa844463698

Microlens arrays are used to create nice even illumination for project — @edmundoptics

8.7K0:57Microlens arrays are used to create nice even illumination for projectors and other optical systems Watch to see how one218411628

What exactly is going on inside of telescopes? Watch to learn about th — @edmundoptics

209.8K1:57What exactly is going on inside of telescopes? Watch to learn about the basics of the two main types of refractive teles1.2K4199120

Here are some real examples of telecentric lenses being used and an ex — @edmundoptics

492.3K4:17Here are some real examples of telecentric lenses being used and an explanation of how they actually work! #science #lea29K9601K2.3K

Why does this gigantic monster lens exist? #science #learnontiktok #st — @edmundoptics

1.9M3:23Why does this gigantic monster lens exist? #science #learnontiktok #stem #stemlife #physics #light #optics #lenses #lens181.6K1.9K2.5K11.6K

Responding to a common question about combining lenses #laser #lenses — @edmundoptics

3.1M1:22Responding to a common question about combining lenses #laser #lenses #science #sciencefacts #learnontiktok #stem #steml97.8K3751.2K6.9K

Engagement per clip

13 parsed clips · newest on the right · click a bar to open the clip peak: 9.8% ER

Jun 29Jul 21Aug 27

Date	Views	Likes	Comments	Shares	Saves	ER
Aug 27, 2025	15,300	777	76	46	104	5.88%
Aug 22, 2025	12,900	501	123	44	83	5.18%
Aug 21, 2025	13,200	508	100	61	121	5.07%
Aug 11, 2025	11,300	389	43	19	53	3.99%
Jul 29, 2025	16,000	335	38	37	43	2.56%
Jul 28, 2025	12,900	292	67	20	48	2.94%
Jul 21, 2025	9,144	274	49	20	53	3.75%
Jul 15, 2025	94,200	844	46	36	98	0.98%
Jul 11, 2025	8,681	218	41	16	28	3.17%
Jul 9, 2025	209,800	1,151	41	99	120	0.62%
Mar 14, 2023	492,300	29,000	960	1,003	2,338	6.29%
Mar 13, 2023	1,900,000	181,600	1,887	2,465	11,570	9.79%
Jun 29, 2022	3,100,000	97,800	375	1,220	6,891	3.21%